Laptop hard drive question

I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have the
same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other words, can
I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?

TIA

Yes you can connect it, ideally using an external case

"Jim" <jrwolfe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have the
> same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other words,
> can I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?
>
> TIA
>
>
>

Many thanks for the info.



"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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> Yes you can connect it, ideally using an external case
>
> "Jim" <jrwolfe@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:eGcyXdK$IHA.3472@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have
>> the same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other
>> words, can I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Jim wrote:
> I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have the
> same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other words, can
> I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?
>
> TIA
>
>
>
2.5" drives do not fit on a PC where 3.5" drives do.
The connectors are not the same. Especially IDE. Not 100% sure of
SATA connectors.
There are SATA and PATA in both sizes.
But you can buy external USB enclosures to make them work on a standard
desktop.

The best tool to get is something like this:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...300&CatId=3770
There are many other brands available, this is for illustration only.

Such a USB adapter will connect to either 2.5 or 3.5 PATA (they have
different connectors) or to 2.5 or 3.5 SATA (they have the same
connectors!). The beauty of this is you don't have to open your desktop PC
to connect to the problem drive, and you don't have to deal with installing
into an enclosure.

I've used this to clone drives when upgrading a machine to a larger drive,
and for troubleshooting.

Val


"Jim" <jrwolfe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have the
same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other words, can
I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?

TIA

Many thanks for all your responses.

I offered to try to fix a friends laptop which I've not yet seem. If
possible she would like to recover her files off the HD. I thought I might
be able to mount the HD as a second drive in my desktop and possibly copy
the data.

TIA


"Jim" <jrwolfe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've not tried to repair a laptop as yet but do their hard drives have the
> same physical connectors as used in a desktop computer. In other words,
> can I remove the HD and connect it to my Windows XP PC?
>
> TIA
>
>
>